Google's orbital AI data center test packs four TPUs and 1,000W of solar power
tomshardware.com
2 threads
Related, with 525 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49830606
“Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space” (blog.google)
what a nothing burger. This is only enough to power a government spy satellite, which is surely what this is actually an excuse for. A chatbot data center will need orders of magnitude more than that.